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What You Can Do

UW Students, Staff, and Faculty:

You can anonymously report any incidents or patterns of abuse or neglect of animals in the care of the University. We encourage you to do what’s right and provide as detailed an observation as you can, with date(s), location(s), animal(s) involved (with their serial numbers if at all possible), condition of the animal(s), and what incident(s) occurred to uwkills@narn.org. We will protect your identity and initiate an investigation. You can also contact us to let us know what experiments are being conducted, who the researchers are, and what the animals go though.

Write or call the UW Alumni Association and tell them that you will not join them, or you are already an alumnus, inform them that you will be canceling your membership unless the University agrees to not use live animals in their research.

Speak up for animals at UW. Please start by sending a polite, succinct letter requesting that the University of Washington reevaluate its policies regarding animal experimentation, and commit to a long-term reduction of the use of any animals for science.

You can attend the next IACUC (Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee) meeting within the UW. IACUC approval is required for animal research protocols, and while meetings are open to the public, they are not well advertised and are subject to change at any notice. While questions can be asked, these meetings are not an opportunity to voice opposition or to protest, otherwise that would effectively eliminate access in the future. We will list future meetings in our blog’s Community Activism section.

Transfer your support of the University of Washington (and any other institutions that use animals in research) to one of the many medical charities that use modern-day non-animal-based research models. Search here to find a list of such charities working for cures. Also search here to find cruelty-free consumer products, ones created without the use of animal testing.

You can also file a FIOA request with the NIH, the federal agency that issues public money grants to the UW. You can look up by name to see if a UW researcher is listed as the Principal Investigator (researcher) for any grants. If so, the NIH will need the information detail (such as the grant number) in order to process your request. If you are successful in getting documents from the NIH, contact us at uwkills@narn.org; we have primatologists and other medical professionals on call to help examine the report(s).

Finally, you can join or volunteer with NARN, and attend our next public demonstration against the use of animals in labs.

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"Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim." - Albert Schweitzer

"If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as `human rights'? How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?" - Carl Sagan

"I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better it should be
abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific
discovery that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil." - Dr. Charles Mayo, one of the
founders of the Mayo clinic.